Elizabeth Green (Mrs. Ebenezer Storer II)
ca. 1767
Medium
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
Framed: 28 9/16 x 22 9/16 x 2 1/8 in. (72.5 x 57.3 x 5.4 cm) Sight: 23 7/8 x 17 5/8 in. (60.6 x 44.8 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.249.1
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About the Artist
John Singleton Copley · 1738–1815
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was the greatest American painter of the colonial era and one of the finest portraitists in the English-speaking world. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was largely self-taught, learning from mezzotint reproductions of European paintings and from his stepfather Peter Pelham, an engraver. By his early twenties, Copley had established himself as Boston's leading po...